US 10,042,116 B2
TECHNIQUES FOR DIRECT OPTICAL COUPLING OF PHOTODETECTORS TO OPTICAL DEMULTIPLEXER OUTPUTS AND AN OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER USING THE SAMEGeneral
US 10,042,116 B2
TECHNIQUES FOR DIRECT OPTICAL COUPLING OF PHOTODETECTORS TO OPTICAL DEMULTIPLEXER OUTPUTS AND AN OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER USING THE SAME
Tech Center:
2600 Communications
Examiner:
Hanh Phan
Art Unit:
2636 Digital and Optical Communications
Inventors:
I-Lung HO; Zhengyu MIAO; Qin LI
Assignee:
Priority:
04/25/16
Filed:
04/25/16
Granted:
08/07/18
Expiration:
04/25/36
Abstract
An arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) device for use in an optical transceiver is disclosed, and can de-multiplex an optical signal into N number of channel wavelengths. The AWG device can include an AWG chip, with the AWG chip providing a planar lightwave (PLC) circuit configured to de-multiplex channel wavelengths and launch the same into output waveguides. A region of the AWG chip may be tapered such that light traveling via the output waveguides encounters an angled surface of the tapered region and reflects towards an output interface region of the AWG chip. Thus detector devices may optically couple to the output interface region of the AWG chip directly, and can avoid losses introduced by other approaches which couple an output of an AWG to detectors by way of a fiber array or other intermediate device.
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
G02G02B6/12019G02BH04B10/40H04J14/0256H04B